Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project - By the Numbers

A total of 55,000 petroglyphs and cultural landscape features recorded, representing10,000 years of human use of Mesa Prieta.100,000 Estimatednumber of petroglyphs on Mesa PrietaLargest number of Historic Petroglyphs in New Mexico.

1000 children have been exposed to our 4th grade curriculum andhave visited the Wells Petroglyph Preserve.17th year of our national award-winning Summer Youth Intern Program: 14 young people in 2017. Adults contributed 250 hours and 2000 miles!

New Hispano history and culture content developed for the 4th grade curriculum"Discovering Mesa Prieta". Free Education Website to anyone using the program.About 125 tours a year are given, introducing 700 adultsand 200 childrento the Wells Petroglyph Preserve annually.